How valuable is your data? If your storage drive crashed, would it ruin your day? Your week? Your entire career? Only you can answer those questions for yourself and your organization. But I'll tell ...

Can I add an old hard drive to RAID sets on servers? In answering this question, let’s assume that the old hard drive used to be an internal drive within a particular host or was incorporated within a ...

Okay what are the benefits/drawbacks of having, say, 2 250 GB hard drives aligned together in "RAID 0", vs. a single, standard 500 GB hard drive?<BR><BR>I get the impression that RAID is somehow ...

Businesses that don't utilize cloud storage to back up their data -- and perhaps even those that do -- should consider making use of a redundant array of independent disks or RAID configuration to ...

Testing a mechanical hard drive’s performance is pretty straightforward and there isn’t much to say about. I will be testing the drive, in this case, the WD Purple 6TB Surveillance hard disk, in a ...

Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...

Does anyone know of an external hard drive device that contains two hard drives factory configured in a RAID mirror?<BR><BR>Looking to use it as external data storage with some level of ...

RAID 0 Performance RAID 1 Performance The WD Purple 6TB surveillance hard drive scales well and shows pretty close to double the performance in RAID 0 setups and barely any impact when in a RAID 1 ...